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Meanings of sycophant in English
Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
Synonyms
Examples for "lackey"
Examples for "lackey"
1
A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber.
2
So we arrived together at the door where the red lackey stood.
3
Jacob Zuma has already stepped into to try and save his lackey.
4
I'm Oberon's favorite lackey, but I can only push him so far.
5
The signs do not look promising for the former Zuma lackey, though.
1
The object must have somehow sensed and responded to the crawler's presence.
2
Stepping into the rear of the crawler, she eyed the tools available.
3
I can see from telemetry that the crawler is already beyond recall.
4
Each consisted of a tracked snow-crawler drawing a few sledges behind it.
5
She indicates the ground-crawler and idly suggests they break their journey now.
1
The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
2
Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
3
I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
4
Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
5
Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
1
It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
2
The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
3
I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
4
Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
5
An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
1
I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
2
The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
3
A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
4
I'm not a bootlicker!
5
I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
1
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
1
A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
2
She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
3
"You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
1
And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
2
"You're a good ass-kisser, too."
Usage of sycophant in English
1
Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
2
He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
3
Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
4
The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
5
He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
6
There was nothing of the sycophant, or even of the courtier, about either.
7
I should best like to see these flung at her brother, the sycophant.
8
Gentleness really belongs to virtue, and a sycophant can hardly imitate it well.
9
I am neither a petitioner nor an office-seeker nor a sycophant.
10
William Scales is a Centralia business man and a virulent sycophant.
11
Instead of consulting men of experience-ps-ps-ps-takes the first sycophant that comes.
12
He is said to be a mean sycophant, a spy paid by Caesar.
13
He was one of the Wild Boar's cronies, a boot-licking sycophant.
14
Here, we get Robin as a one-note joke, the eternal chipper kid sycophant.
15
The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.
16
The crook-legged ape did it to honor the Spanish sycophant.
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Translations for sycophant
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